Pirates of Barbary
corsairs, conquests and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean
by Adrian Tinniswood
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PIRATES OF BARBARY is a record of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who terrorised the Mediterranean throughout the seventeenth century. From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to battle, swap religions and trade goods and slaves - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency. Studying the culture and practices of these men Adrian Tinniswood recreates the world of the corsairs. He uncovers a clash of civilisations and creates a kaleidoscopic image of the time of these wild and exotic people - and how it was to sacrifice everything for a violent, uncertain and alien life, which set you apart from the rest of mankind.
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
2011, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
1594485445 9781594485442
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
2011, Penguin Random House
in English
0099523868 9780099523864
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
2011, Penguin Random House
in English
1446468623 9781446468623
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Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean
2011, Thorpe
in English
- Large print ed.
1444806610 9781444806618
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Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean
2010, Jonathan Cape
in English
0224085263 9780224085267
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